Skill Aided Snow Blaze
SYDNEY. — Snow Blaze, hot favorite for the fillies' division of the Maiden Nursery Stakes at Canterbury today, gave her…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Bushfire Damages £30,000
SYDNEY, Friday.—Bushfires still raging in the north-west of New South Wales have caused damage estimated at £30,000…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Police early this morning battered their way through two locked doors to rescue a sleeping man from his…
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BUMPER SEASON FOR FIRES…
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SYDNEY. — Pelted by hailstones, 100 firemen, most of them dressed in pyjamas, early today fought 100-ft. high flames which caused more than £20,000 worth of damage at Boorowa, in the southern N.S.W. highlands. Fanned by a strong north…
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Brigades were called to seven bushfires in Newcastle district yesterday and last night. Large…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday, Two 17-year-old youths were arrested to-day for allegedly having set fire to two suburban churches…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In a heavy hailstorm 100 men at Boorowa to-day fought a blaze which roared through a block of…
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The health inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) told the Lower Hunter Shire Council today that most landholders were…
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Bushfires are sweeping many parts of New South Wales. Fanned by strong wind, many of the fires have been burning…
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Homes were in the path of fierce bushfires in many parts of Newcastle district yesterday. Although firemen and volunteers fought…
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SYDNEY: Bushfires ravaging the North Coast have caused more than £1 million worth of damage. Yesterday fire destroyed several houses, a sawmill, banana…
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Brigades from Cook's Hill, Hamilton and Tighe's Hill last night saved surrounding offices from destruction when fire broke out in a building at the end of Patey's Lane, off Newcomen-street, Newcastle…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives to-day, asked the Vice-president of the Executive…
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SYDNEY: The immediate consideration is being given by Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt) of a proclamation…
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NEW YORK Oct. 24. A.A.P.—A fire broke out early to-day in St. Paul's Hospital, at Dallas (Texas) and quickly ate through the roof…
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Bushfires, still out of control, have caused more than £1 million damage on the North Coast. Snow, rain, hail and gale force wind swept…
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Brigades attended 11 bushfires in Newcastle district yesterday. The only damages reported last night was the destruction of an empty shed…
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Strong westerlies, sweeping the fire-ravaged areas of the State, have scattered sparks into tinderdry country and new fires are raging out of control. Fro 200 miles—from Coff's…
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Two small bushfires were reported in Newcastle district yesterday. One was at Belmont South, the other at Hillsborough. Belmont and…
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